Vodafone Group Stock News

Sanford C. Bernstein set a GBX 155 ($2.03) target price on Vodafone Group (LON:VOD) in a report published on Tuesday morning, Borsen Zeitung reports. VOD has been the topic of a number of other research reports. Morgan Stanley reissued an overweight rating on shares of Vodafone Group in a research report on Friday, November 12th. []

Messaging apps are everywhere over 3.1 billion people around the world use them, sending more than 140 billion messages every day. Their ubiquity, size, and the value they deliver to their users have often converted into stratospheric market valuations: Whatsapp was acquired for an unprecedented $19 billion in 2014, after being launched only 5 years earlier. At the time of acquisition, Facebook paid $42 per WhatsApp user. Telegram, launched in 2013 by Pavel Durov, has over 500 million users today and recently rejected an investment offer valuing it at $30 billion. Skype, one of the first VoIP services, was sold to Microsoft for $8.5 billion in 2011. The growth of mobile messaging apps shows no signs of stopping: the number of mobile messaging app users is projected to increase by over 10% by 2025, an additional 300 million people. While the growth has been phenomenal, it has brought to light a series of previously unknown dangers to the privacy, finances, and personal safety of mobile phone users: Data Sharing Violations The EUs privacy watchdog fined WhatsApp 255 million for data processing and data sharing violations in September 2021.

VOD earnings call for the period ending September 30, 2021.

Guinness-maker Diageo jumped after it said it expects to smash profit forecasts .Land Securities and telecoms group Vodafone also soared.

Vodafone Group plc (LON:VOD) reported a 5.0% increase in half year revenues, reaching 22.5bn, reflecting increased handset sales post-pandemic, and higher roaming charges, as well as good customer growth in Europe and Africa. Q3 2021 hedge fund letters, conferences and more Underlying cash profits before leases rose 6.5% to 7.6bn, reflecting the increase in revenues []

Vodafone Group (LON:VOD) has been given a GBX 170 ($2.22) price target by equities researchers at Barclays in a report issued on Tuesday, Borsen Zeitung reports. Barclayss target price indicates a potential upside of 46.55% from the stocks previous close. Other equities analysts have also issued reports about the stock. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft reissued a []

London''s FTSE 100 slipped on Tuesday, weighed down by weaker shares of AstraZeneca and heavyweight consumer staples stocks, although upbeat earnings updates from Vodafone and spirits maker Diageo limited overall declines.

Analysts at Morgan Stanley say there's scope for luxury goods to sell as well virtually as they do physically -- and say the market could be as large as €50 billion, or $57 billion at current exchan

Vodafone Group Plc (LON:VOD) declared a dividend on Tuesday, November 16th, Upcoming.Co.Uk reports. Shareholders of record on Thursday, November 25th will be paid a dividend of 0.05 ($0.05) per share by the cell phone carrier on Friday, February 4th. This represents a dividend yield of 3.4%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, November 25th. The official []

Shares of Vodafone Group Plc were gaining around 6 percent in the London trading as well as in pre-market activity on Nasdaq after the British telecom major said it now expects fiscal 2022 Adjusted EBITDAaL, a key earnings metric, at the top half of its initial forecast. In the first half, the company recorded weak pre-tax profit, but Adjusted EBITDAaL was higher on revenue growth.

Europe, Africa, and a pickup in handset sales drove revenue growth.

Vodafone Group (LON:VOD) received a GBX 160 ($2.09) price objective from analysts at JPMorgan Chase & Co. in a report released on Tuesday, Borsen Zeitung reports. JPMorgan Chase & Co.s price target would suggest a potential upside of 34.18% from the stocks current price. Several other brokerages also recently weighed in on VOD. Credit Suisse []

Vodafone Group CEO Nick Read set out an ambition to merge infrastructure subsidiary Vantage Towers with a big name peer.

Analysts are calling for Vodafone (VOD) to move on from its focus on shareholder returns and embrace a more ambitious growth strategy.